proper design for a platform independent applicaiton

jwstric2 · 05-31-2004, 06:27 PM

Im looking for a good spec or anyone with experience of how to properly design a c program to be os independent (ie and linux and windows os). From what I have thought of and seen done a lot in the linux kernel is to define a header file like asm.h. In asm.h it includes files to the specific defined architecture by way of #ifdef. Any other suggestions or things I should be warey of would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

aluser · 05-31-2004, 06:32 PM

Check out autoconf at http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ . It's what most open source projects are using to handle portability, at least between unices. My understanding is that you can build in cygwin with it too.

Autobook, http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/a...obook_toc.html , gives a lot of information about autoconf, automake, and libtool.